Definitions for elegant
ˈɛl ɪ gəntel·e·gant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. elegantadjective

   refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

   "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

2. elegant, graceful, refinedadjective

   suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

3. elegantadjective

   displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

   "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. elegantadjective

   Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

2. elegantadjective

   Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

   an elegant solution

3. Etymology: From elegant, ultimately from elegans.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ELEGANTadjective

   Etymology: elegans, Latin.

   1. Pleasing with minuter beauties.

   Trifles themselves are elegant in him. Alexander Pope.

   There may’st thou find some elegant retreat. London.

   2. Nice; not coarse; not gross.

   Polite with candour, elegant with ease. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. elegant

   Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity. Elegance is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in visual design, decorative arts, literature, science, and the aesthetics of mathematics. Elegant things often exhibit refined grace and suggest maturity, and in the case of mathematics, a deep mastery of the subject matter.

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1. elegant

   Elegant refers to something that is graceful, stylish, and tastefully refined in appearance or behavior. It often connotes sophistication, high quality, and a lack of ostentation. This term can be used to describe a wide range of entities including clothing, language, ideas, designs, buildings, or even mathematical proofs, among other things.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Elegantadjective

   very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure

2. Elegantadjective

   exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Elegant

   el′e-gant, adj. pleasing to good taste: graceful: neat: refined: nice: richly ornamental.—ns. El′egance, El′egancy, the state or quality of being elegant: the beauty of propriety: refinement: that which is elegant; Elegante (el-e-gangt′), a lady of fashion.—adv. El′egantly. [Fr.,—L. elegans, -antis—e, out, and root of legĕre, to choose.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. elegant

   [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than ‘clever’, ‘winning’, or even cuspy.The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'elegant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4769

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'elegant' in Adjectives Frequency: #660

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1. angelet

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of elegant in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of elegant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of elegant in a Sentence

1. Ari Seth Cohen:

   She's an incredibly elegant woman who lived in Buenos Aires, and so I flew down to photograph her and interview her for the book, i was so honored that at 93 she was following my work, this incredibly elegant woman.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

3. Carrie Fisher:

   So when I started thinking about who I wanted to design my wedding dress, they were the first people who came to mind, i have always been a massive fan of their work and thought their elegant, ethereal, unique style was a perfect fit for my — kind of —elegant, ethereal, unique personality.

4. Laurie David:

   Even though the house is very architectural, with a lot of design, it's simple and elegant, it pulls you in and makes you feel like you're living outside.

5. Brian Solis:

   The product is elegant, the technology is disruptive, to say the least, is it enough to conquer the industry ? It remains to be seen. It’s closely guarded. If they can demonstrate momentum, then monetization becomes the least of their worries.

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